Eni said that an application requesting suspension of enforceability of the sentence will be presented as soon as possible. Syndial and its technical-legal consultants consider the sentence and the amount of the compensation to be without any basis.

Syndial has underlined its longstanding commitment to protecting and cleaning up the site from the contamination, which took place well before than Pieve Vergonte’s transfer to Enichem, as required by law in the 1980s following the SIR Group’s financial problems.